Image A quarter of the planet faces extremely high water stress. Meet the innovators trying to change that July 29, 2024 Groundwater forecasting, aquaculture, and helping smallholders were winning innovation areas in the latest innovation challenge from nonprofit FoodShot Global, which hosts challenges for entrepreneurs based on a particular issue related to food, agriculture and/or environment. Dr. Laura Condon was a winner, and her team's innovation is receiving broad attention. Read more
Image ‘The power behind women leaders’: Inaugural SSWIMS fellows celebrate success July 26, 2024 A fellowship for women in medicine and science, including VIP Team Leader Dr. Salma Patel (left, with another SSWIMS fellow Dr. Sujata Saha, right), supported projects that are improving education, research and patient care — and preparing participants for leadership. Read more
Image AZ Farmers Using Solar Panels to Shade Crops: researchers find plants grown under solar panels are larger & healthier July 17, 2024 This initiative aims to study how solar panels can be used to help shade crops, known as agrivoltaics. This innovative approach allows food and renewable energy production to coexist in the same space. Read more
Image Vertically Integrated Projects Announces New Faculty Director Dr. David Margolis July 16, 2024 Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David Margolis as its faculty director. Read more
Image New Edition of Acclaimed ‘Humans R Social Media’ Crafted from Faculty-Student Collaboration June 12, 2024 “Students know so much about the online world. It’s essential to involve that knowledge in what we teach. I started collecting student stories for our podcast Social Media & Ourselves in 2018, but it was the iVoices Media Lab that supercharged the involvement of student voices in what our students learned." Read more
Image Widely used climate theory doesn't 'ring' true, according to new tree data June 3, 2024 New data on over 1,500 trees across nearly 1,000 sites shows that an existing theory of how individuals within a species will respond to a changing climate might not be true. Read more
VIP Inaugural Poster Session to be held Monday, March 25 Feb. 29, 2024 The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program at UArizona is holding its Inaugural Poster Session on Monday, March 25, from 2 to 4 pm in the Forum (First Floor) of the Health Sciences Innovation Building at the University of Arizona Tucson campus. Read more
PlanetScape: Fusing art, science and technology Feb. 29, 2024 A University of Arizona Health Sciences SensorLab collaboration cultivates creativity with a unique multimedia performance and interactive exhibit. Read more
Innovative Multimedia Research Project: DISCAPAZ Launches Website Dec. 20, 2023 In 2022, the Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities received one year of funding from the University of Arizona Libraries Digital Borderlands Initiative, a three-year grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop DISCAPAZ: Disability Experiences in the Borderlands. The UArizona Libraries’ goal is to produce and disseminate new, open-access humanities scholarship on the US–Mexico borderlands by integrating library services into a collaborative research process that emphasizes data-intensive, digital storytelling. Read more
Scientists might be using a flawed strategy to predict how species will fare under climate change Dec. 18, 2023 A new study involving University of Arizona researchers suggests change is happening faster than trees can adapt. The finding offers "a word of caution for ecologists" studying climate change. Read more